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Agenda: Week of Oct 31 - Nov 4, 2016

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 -  Age of Accelerating Connections, 500 - 1500
Chapter 10 - European Christendom & Chapter 11 Islamic World
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Reading Check Quiz: CH 10
; Review Quiz

TUE: Was this a 'Dark Age'?Andrew Marr's Into the Light; Questions over Marr: "Light" Documentary
WED/THU: Video: The Crescent & The CrossWhat was the impact of the Crusades in world history?; POV Statements - Review the work from the last test - Examples of good & bad work; POV Practice from CH 10 & 11; Intro to The Worlds of Islam - Chapter 11: What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity & Buddhism? 
FRI: AHS Presidential Election in ClassRole of Women in Islam

ASSESSEMENTS AT A GLANCE:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Wednesday/Thursday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
Very confusing chapter for students. West & Eastern Europe go by many pseudonyms. 
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Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Quote:  “The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.” - Hubert Humphrey

Learning Targets:
★ Explain the changes that occur in European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire
★ Compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
★ Describe medieval European expansion and analyze the factors that led to its development
★ Analyze the evolution of Europe from backward medieval Europe relative to other civilizations, and the steps by which it caught up

Essential Questions:
1. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
2. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
3. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?
4. How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus?
5. How did the historical development of the European West differ from that of Byzantium in the post-classical era?
6. What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe?
7. In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?
8. What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?
9. In what ways did borrowing from abroad shape European civilization after 1000?
10. Why was Europe unable to achieve the kind of political unity that China experienced? What impact did this have on the subsequent history of Europe?
11. In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium, and in the Islamic world?

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - CH 10

2. Review Quiz & Question

ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Wednesday/Thursday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
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Tuesday, Nov 1, 2016
Quote:  “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.” - Pope John Paul I

Learning Targets:

★ Explain the changes that occur in European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire
★ Compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
★ Describe medieval European expansion and analyze the factors that led to its development
★ Analyze the evolution of Europe from backward medieval Europe relative to other civilizations, and the steps by which it caught up

Essential Questions:
1. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
2. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
3. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?
4. How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus?
5. How did the historical development of the European West differ from that of Byzantium in the post-classical era?
6. What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe?
7. In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?
8. What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?
9. In what ways did borrowing from abroad shape European civilization after 1000?
10. Why was Europe unable to achieve the kind of political unity that China experienced? What impact did this have on the subsequent history of Europe?
11. In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium, and in the Islamic world?

Agenda:

1. DO NOW: What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe? In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Was this a 'Dark Age'?

3. Andrew Marr's Into the Light -  Questions over Marr: "Light" Documentary

ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Wednesday/Thursday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
The Crusades: What a mess!
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Wednesday, Nov 2, 2016 & Thursday Nov 3, 2016
Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Waldo Emerson

Learning Targets:

★ Explain the changes that occur in European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire
★ Compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
★ Describe medieval European expansion and analyze the factors that led to its development
★ Analyze the evolution of Europe from backward medieval Europe relative to other civilizations, and the steps by which it caught up

Essential Questions:
1. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
2. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
3. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?
4. How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus?
5. How did the historical development of the European West differ from that of Byzantium in the post-classical era?
6. What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe?
7. In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?
8. What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?
9. In what ways did borrowing from abroad shape European civilization after 1000?
10. Why was Europe unable to achieve the kind of political unity that China experienced? What impact did this have on the subsequent history of Europe?
11. In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium, and in the Islamic world?

Agenda:
1. Do Now: What impact did the Crusades have on world history?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: The Crusades

Video: The Crescent & The Cross - What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?

3. POINT OF VIEW: Review the work from the last test - Examples of good & bad work

POV Practice from CH 10 & 11

4. Notes, Video, Discussion: Introduction to Chapter 11, The Worlds of Islam
What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity and Buddhism? What similarities and differences characterized their religious outlooks?

ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Wednesday/Thursday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
It is like the "Mecca" of Islam. (Probably because it is Mecca)
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Friday, Nov 4, 2016
Quote: “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.” - Earl Shoaf

Learning Targets:

• Analyze the causes behind the spread of Islam
• Explain how the dynamism of the Islamic world was the most influential of the third-wave civilizations
• Examine the religious divisions within Islam and how they affected political development
• Compare Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian, African, and Hindu cultures
• Compare the accomplishments of the Islamic world in the period 600–1500 C.E. with those of their contemporaries.

Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins?
2. How does the core message of Islam compare with that of Judaism and Christianity?
3. In what ways was the rise of Islam revolutionary, both in theory and in practice?
4. Why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly?
5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam?
6. What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?
7. In what ways were Sufi Muslims critical of mainstream Islam?
8. How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?
9. What similarities and differences can you identify in the spread of Islam to India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain?
10. Why was Anatolia so much more thoroughly Islamized than India?
11. What makes it possible to speak of the Islamic world as a distinct and coherent civilization?
12. In what ways was the world of Islam a “cosmopolitan civilization”?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prepare to vote for President - AHS Vote
AHS Presidential Election in Class

2. Discuss this question in class: Islam Single World or Distinct Communities?
“Islam was simultaneously both a single world of shared meaning and interaction and a series of separate and distinct communities, often in conflict with one another.” What evidence could you provide to support both sides of this argument?

How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?

3. Video: Andrew Marr's History of the World: Word and Sword - Islam.  Compare the story of Perpetua to that of the Islamic convert in the video?

ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Wednesday/Thursday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test